To comprehend how much energy we use, and what goes where, this is great place to start.
Produced at Lawrence Livermore Labs (https://eed.llnl.gov/) this ‘Sankey diagram’ shows the flow of energy from source to destination, shows what gets used and what gets wasted. We found it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_(energy)
click on the chart to see it larger. It’s in the public domain.

